He was elected Best Finance Minister for the MENA region for 2012 and Minister of Finance of 2012 by The Banker, a magazine of the Financial Times press group. On August 2013 he was appointed to head the Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental.

Previously, he was Group CFO at Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, and managing director of Lazard. During the 2003 Evian G8 summit, Badré served as President Jacques Chirac’s deputy personal representative for Africa and as a spokesperson on new international financial contributions to fund development. He was on the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure and served in the French Ministry of Finance.

He has worked for the UN, and as Special Advisor to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. Ba founded AFRICA Synergies, from which Femmes Africa Solidarité was born. He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

Previously, she established the Office for International & Philanthropic Innovation at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development where she served as its first deputy assistant secretary and also as Secretary Shaun Donovan’s deputy chief of staff. Argilagos received her bachelor’s in international relations from American University and her master’s in public administration from Harvard University.

Afterwards, he was appointed as the consul general in Barcelona. Amrani has served as an ambassador to Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Belize. From 2003-2008, he served as the ambassador and director general of bilateral relations. In November 2008, Amrani was appointed secretary general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, a position he held until his election as secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean, in July 2011.

Prior to that, he was executive director at Swiss Re in New York and London, and held the same position at Lehman Brothers and various other international financial institutions. Amegroud is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and holds an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Paris, France. Additionally, he holds a master’s of sustainable energy technologies from Southampton University and a DEA (Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies) in mathematics from Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris.

She is the vice-chair of the Morocco-Japan Friendship Association, a member of several think tanks, and sits on the board of trustees on various associations, including the l’Institut Royal d’Etudes Stratégiques, l’IRES, (Morocco), Moroccan British Society, and the Club de Rome. From 2002 to 2003, she co-chaired the EU high- level panel on dialogue between cultures and peoples in the Euro-Mediterranean area, which produced the Prodi Report.

He has also worked at the Moroccan telecom regulator in the early stages of liberalization of telecommunications. Alaoui was professor at University Mohamed 5th in Rabat and consultant for several international organizations such as ITU, UNDP and UNESCO. He is also currently member of the economic, social, and environmental council of Morocco.

Alaoui is a political analyst for French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur and a contributor to Forbes on U.S policy, North Africa, and international relations. His books include Intelligence economique et guerres secretes au Maroc (Alphée Editions, Paris), Une ambition Marocaine, des experts analysent la decennie 1999-2009 (Alphée Editions, Paris), Le Maghreb dans les relations internationales (CNRS Editions, IFRI, Paris 2011), and Le Maroc stratégique (Descartes Editions, Paris, 2013).

He has had extensive experience in peacekeeping operations, having served as a deputy commanding officer with the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia, a military observer with the UN Iraq–Kuwait Observation Mission, personnel officer with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, and platoon commander with UN Emergency Force II. He was also a member of the UN Military Liaison Team deployed to prepare grounds for the insertion of the UN Protection Force into former Yugoslavia in 1992.